Voices from the Front Podcast

🎙️ Voices from the Front — Russia Wants Ukraine to Succeed? This weekend, Donald Trump made a claim so detached from reality it caused more than a few people to spit out their tea: “Russia wants Ukraine to succeed.” That statement didn’t land in a vacuum. It came while Russia was actively launching missiles, drones, and artillery strikes across Ukraine — hitting civilians, critical infrastructure,...

🎙️ Voices from the Front | For far too long, coverage of the war in Ukraine has been trapped in map-watching , false balance, and the lazy language of stalemate . This piece breaks that frame. The most important change in this war is not measured in kilometres gained or lost. It is measured in tempo , cost , and who is being forced to react . That dynamic has changed. I’m not suggesting Ukraine is...

🎙️Voices from the Front | Oksana Pechenyuk is a Ukrainian naval officer cadet and a trailblazer in modern European military history. She is the first Ukrainian woman to graduate from the United Kingdom’s Royal Naval College , marking a historic milestone in UK–Ukraine defence cooperation and women’s leadership in the armed forces. Born and raised in Ukraine, Oksana chose a military path shaped by...

🎙️Voices From the Front — Why Ukrainian Resilience Will Outlast Putin | Report from Dnipro Ukraine keeps going, even when the world isn’t looking. In this new episode, I take you to Dnipro , a city that isn’t officially on the frontline, yet lives with the war inching closer every month. Despite ballistic attacks, drone swarms, rolling blackouts, and the constant hum of generators, life continues...

🎙️Voices from the Front — Pokrovsk: Where Putin Smashed His Teeth 🪖 The battle for Pokrovsk isn’t just another frontline update, it’s the moment Putin’s invasion hit a wall. After four years of full-scale war and over a million Russian casualties, Moscow’s so-called “second strongest army in the world” is grinding itself into the Donetsk dirt. When I was there a year ago, the Russians were eight...

🎙️ Voices from the Front — Former POWs reunited, raw truths from the frontline of Ukraine. In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Alex Drueke — a U.S. Army veteran & former POW captured by Russian forces in Ukraine. Alex and I were exchanged together. He is a very humble man and funny guy, with a clear understanding of what Russia is. Today, we speak openly about: Why an American volunteer...

🎙Voices from the Front — In Believers, Killers & Runaways , former British soldier and Ukrainian Marine Shaun Pinner unpacks one of the most misunderstood aspects of the war in Ukraine — the foreign volunteers who came to fight. Who were they? What drove them — conviction, adrenaline, or survival? I separate myth from reality in this bite-size episode, exploring the chaos, courage, and controversy...

🎙 Voices from the Front: “TRUMP, ORBAN & PUTIN” | with Cormac Smith The week Europe blinked — sanctions, summits, and the strongmen who want to shape the world. In this powerful episode of Voices from the Front , I sit down with Cormac Smith , former UK Government Adviser and Communications Strategist, to dissect a week that sent political shockwaves across Europe and beyond. Trump’s Sanctions: Wh...

🎙️ Voices from the Front — Prebeg is a Croatian veteran and Ukrainian Marine who became one of the most high-profile foreign POWs in Russia’s war against Ukraine. A former soldier in the Croatian Army, Prebeg joined Ukraine’s 36th Marine Brigade in 2020, serving in Mariupol when Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. During the brutal siege of Mariupol, Prebeg and his comrades e...

🎙️ Voices from the Front — Russia’s war against Ukraine is entering a critical phase, and Vladimir Putin is under immense strain at home and abroad. In this powerful interview, I sit down with Cormac Smith, a former British diplomat and expert on international affairs, to break down the forces shaping today’s conflict and where it might all lead. Cormac brings a rare insider perspective on diploma...

🎙️ Voices from the Front - In Part Two of my conversation with Brahim Saadoun , we go deeper into what happened after the headlines faded — the months in Russian captivity, the mockery of justice that followed, and the psychological scars left by a system designed to break the human spirit. Brahim opens up about life inside a Russian prison, the so-called “trial” that sentenced him to death, and t...

🎙️ Voices from the Front — with Brahim Saadoun & Shaun Pinner A powerful conversation between two former prisoners of war, united by survival and purpose. Shaun Pinner and Brahim Saadoun share their first-hand experiences of captivity under Russian forces, their reflections on resilience, and their mission to expose the truth behind Putin’s war. Honest, raw, and deeply human, this is a dialogue ab...